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What is the Best File Search Program?
What I don't find in File Explorer is a way to enter a phrase and get
back just those files that have that phrase in its name. |
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What is the Best File Search Program?
On 01/30/2019 10:05 AM, Ricardo Jimenez wrote:
What I don't find in File Explorer is a way to enter a phrase and get back just those files that have that phrase in its name. Agent Ransack and Search everything are both Excellent choices, Each is better a some things so I use both. Rene |
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:51:17 -0500, Wolf K
wrote: On 2019-01-30 11:05, Ricardo Jimenez wrote: What I don't find in File Explorer is a way to enter a phrase and get back just those files that have that phrase in its name. ??? Here the Search function does exactly that. Give some examples of search terms you've used, maybe we can help you tweak them. I put the word classical as the search term for a directory. I came up with a long list of files, only some of which had classical in the file name. Those gave the title with that word highlighted in yellow. I found this very cumbersome to find what I was looking for. How do I tell it to give only the search phase in the results? |
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Hash: SHA256 Ricardo Jimenez wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:51:17 -0500, Wolf K wrote: On 2019-01-30 11:05, Ricardo Jimenez wrote: What I don't find in File Explorer is a way to enter a phrase and get back just those files that have that phrase in its name. ??? Here the Search function does exactly that. Give some examples of search terms you've used, maybe we can help you tweak them. I put the word classical as the search term for a directory. I came up with a long list of files, only some of which had classical in the file name. Those gave the title with that word highlighted in yellow. I found this very cumbersome to find what I was looking for. How do I tell it to give only the search phase in the results? I'm fairly certain the rest of the results simply have the word "classical" somewhere in the text. If the explorer search works the same as it did in 7, you can use "Title:searchterm" (e.g. Title:Classical) to limit it to the filename. Er, well, going off memory anyway, it might be a different keyword than "Title". -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEBcqaUD8uEzVNxUrujhHd8xJ5ooEFAlxR41 kACgkQjhHd8xJ5 ooHLoQgArtflcOJh2xmXC20wO8Z+6fAKAOjJaEH5+bpRVj0jEK J0ZjeUu8VrVu7O 7hzbKQTnDmZnfi9MMf6X7dHtlpPJNgRxEzmf6RxUk33mNyiKxE etetbaFFnivlDp wcH+yrlzw5qddM+k9j9T0vVWs1jKX+V/pLXubSXq6v0aw9N5s0mS3FHSPAUA/fmP jIivVezp4Dg64EQhJcAXcj5ZDYfcfhs23ek0GWn2nnebFGJDoy EnfZ8BL96O76/f IR9FMK+BL8bVM1m5oHs90R0DssGPostqdt1kqV1u/dtapCtKe3hFZ5cOjIG0+N14 9+OK/QHuq8tXXCnoOIuCEh2bMHK/LA== =3UGn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281 |
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"Ricardo Jimenez" wrote
| What I don't find in File Explorer is a way to enter a phrase and get | back just those files that have that phrase in its name. I'd second Rene's post. I use Agent Ransack. Many people use Everything. The latter requires indexing. I haven't used Windows search for ages. It never was much good. It's had little if any ability to look based on file content in non-text files. It's slow. And in Win10, as I understand it, there's been some complication to turn search into spyware, reporting to MS what you look for. (I don't know details on that. I just saw something recently about MS planning to decouple local search from online search. Someone else may have the full story.) |
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Ricardo Jimenez wrote:
What I don't find in File Explorer is a way to enter a phrase and get back just those files that have that phrase in its name. You want Advanced Query Syntax, but not just any article will do, since there will be a lot of WinXP era articles on the topic. And you might not be dealing with exactly the right list for the job. While all the versions probably share the basics, the trick is "how do I verify I have the article that applies to my OS". And lots of articles refer to older search implementations. https://www.tenforums.com/general-su...ax-search.html content:string content:"string" What the content specifier does, is equivalent to WinXP Search and the second line where you can search for some text in each file. The Indexing Options (control panel), by default, is set to index both files and content. The index, Windows.edb, is an inverted index stored in ESE Jet Blue database. You won't be able to do anything really useful, until you extend the set of directories it searches. When I attempted to change the settings and regenerate the database, such that only file names would be in there, the gatherer engine refused to do that, and it still indexes both filenames and content. Content is only collected for files of known type. For example, a text file ends in .txt, and the provider for .txt could spot the word "tomato" and it gets added to the content part of the index. But say that someone writes a computer program, an EXE, and it has the word "tomato" in it. It's less certain the provider for EXEs, allows spotting random words inside. They might not be delimited as strings with a null on the end. Since the Windows search is a federated search, if your email tool has a provider, individual emails can also be indexed and added to the collection. ******* Here is a worked example. https://i.postimg.cc/k5fdy56y/aqs-kn...urself-out.gif Steps: 1) Start : Run : "control" === open Control Panels 2) Use Indexing Options to define a useful portion of the C: drive. I was lazy in this example and didn't knock myself out trying to get every last stinking directory indexed. You cannot index the folder containing "Windows.edb" since that would cause an indexing loop to form. Some folders will be off-limits for practical reasons. 3) The indexer uses backoff. When you're working, indexing stops. It may take the Indexer three hours to do the first pass at indexing 100,000 files on the C: drive. It reads each and every file for content. (20GB reads, call provider in each case, grind file up into strings.) 4) When the Indexing Options status says indexing is complete, then you know your Index is valid. The Windows.edb could be a file 1GB in size. 5) The Indexing Options has a "rebuild" option, but starting the index from scratch is expensive (3 hours...). Once the Index is complete, prepare a "sample.txt" file. Put some nonsense in it. You might notice that content:abc content:"abc" produce different results. One matches on any occurrence, the other finds " abc " type strings. If you work with numbers, then the behavior gets really strange. You might generally only get a match for whole numbers that match. 12321 would not get matched if you searched for 123, whether 123 was in quotes or not. This suggests that maybe numbers are stored as integers, instead of as strings. Every time you edit "sample.txt" and save, the Indexer, since it's caught up, will immediately index the change, and you can do your search a second later. That's the basic concept at least. There is a USN Journal that logs "files that changed" and the Indexer reads that to figure out what files you have updated by saving, instantly. Most users haven't set up where the Indexer is pointed, so they're not getting the full power of Federated Search. It's a stretch to think a user will figure this out by themselves. I had to find an AQS article to make any progress. You can also set the properties of the Indexer, so it does not back off and goes "full steam". However, Microsoft has set things up such that no more than half your processor can be used for maintenance tasks, so even if you switch off backoff by using GPEDIT or a registry entry, you're still not getting the fastest possible Index building process. Paul |
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 10:53:36 -0600, Rene Lamontagne
wrote: On 01/30/2019 10:05 AM, Ricardo Jimenez wrote: What I don't find in File Explorer is a way to enter a phrase and get back just those files that have that phrase in its name. Agent Ransack and Search everything are both Excellent choices, Each is better a some things so I use both. I second that. I also use both. However his question is about searching in file names. Search Everything is far and away better than Agent Ransack for that. It's blazingly fast. If you want to search within files for content, then Agent Ransack is the way to go. |
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On 1/30/2019 12:56 PM, Mayayana wrote:
And in Win10, as I understand it, there's been some complication to turn search into spyware, reporting to MS what you look for. (I don't know details on that. I just saw something recently about MS planning to decouple local search from online search. Someone else may have the full story.) Why not just restrict your comments to that which you DO know? There is nothing "turning search into spyware" unless the user wants to do that. The issue is that many users use Cortana, and those that do might find Search linked to Cortana a useful feature. Cortana is what reports user actions to MS, and those that use Cortana either don't have a problem with that or don't know about that because they don't know Win10 (sound familiar? It should). OTOH, I have always completely disabled Cortana, so there is no link to Search and no feedback to MS or anyone else about what I search for on my computers. -- best regards, Neil |
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On 1/30/19 8:05 AM, Ricardo Jimenez wrote:
What I don't find in File Explorer is a way to enter a phrase and get back just those files that have that phrase in its name. Oh ya, the File Explorer search tool is a real stinker! I like Super Finder XT http://fsl.sytes.net/ssearchxt.html Beware of junkware! Install on custom only and READ and deny every extra offer!!! I am going to have to check out Agent Ransack that others have mentioned. |
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 16:16:22 -0500, Wolf K
wrote: On 2019-01-30 12:38, Ricardo Jimenez wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:51:17 -0500, Wolf K wrote: On 2019-01-30 11:05, Ricardo Jimenez wrote: What I don't find in File Explorer is a way to enter a phrase and get back just those files that have that phrase in its name. ??? Here the Search function does exactly that. Give some examples of search terms you've used, maybe we can help you tweak them. I put the word classical as the search term for a directory. I came up with a long list of files, only some of which had classical in the file name. Those gave the title with that word highlighted in yellow. I found this very cumbersome to find what I was looking for. How do I tell it to give only the search phase in the results? You probably have "File contents" marked as a search location. Clickj on the search box so as to bring up Search Tools in the menubar. Search Tools - Advanced Options - uncheck File Contents. HTH It wasn't checked. Under Advanced Options I have Change Indexed Locations In non-indexed loactions no check - File contents check - System files no check - Zipped (compressed) folders |
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On 1/31/19 5:53 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:20:39 -0800, T wrote: On 1/30/19 8:05 AM, Ricardo Jimenez wrote: What I don't find in File Explorer is a way to enter a phrase and get back just those files that have that phrase in its name. Oh ya, the File Explorer search tool is a real stinker! I like Super Finder XT http://fsl.sytes.net/ssearchxt.html Looks interesting. I was always fond of Locate32, which looks similar to SuperFinderXT except without the awful "ribbon" toolbar. It's a bit long in the tooth but still perfectly functional. I prefer it over Everything and Agent Ransack for its interface; the former is too simplified, whilst the latter is just a bit more cluttered than I would like. Its major limitations are that it only has limited "search within" capabilities (mostly text files) and its indexes are not automatically updated (although it has a built-in scheduling capability). On the other hand, it is fast and very lightweight. Super Finder does have search within. I takes a bit of staring to realize where it is at. |
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